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• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (General Charges Imposition) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  (the Samuel Review), the bill imposes charges in relation to prescribed matters connected with the administration of the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  (the Samuel Review), the bill imposes charges relating to actions taken under the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  , including certain approvals containing conditions requiring the payment of a restoration contribution charge, the registration of priority actions in a bioregional plan, and the grant of national interest and Part 13 exemptions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  (the Samuel Review), the bill amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: streamline the assessment and approvals process; update provisions relating to accreditation and bilateral agreements; provide for bioregional plans; provide a framework for the minister to make, vary and revoke national environmental standards; make it clear that projects with unacceptable impacts on nationally protected matters can no longer be approved; prevent a project being approved unless all residual significant impacts of the action on nationally protected matters have been compensated to a net gain; provide a mechanism for projects that are in the national interest to be approved even if they do not meet certain requirements; allow conditions to be attached to taking an action covered by a national interest exemption; amend provisions relating to reconsiderations; update provisions relating to conservation planning and heritage; update compliance and enforcement powers; and make administrative amendments. Also makes consequential amendments to 11 other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  (the Samuel Review), the bill establishes the National Environmental Protection Agency as a statutory Commonwealth entity to undertake regulatory and implementation functions under a range of environmental Commonwealth laws 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• VET Student Loans (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  The bill: authorises certain activities undertaken in relation to tax file numbers (TFNs) for the purpose of administering, or facilitating the administration of, a student’s application for a VET Student Loan or the student’s loan itself; and authorises the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ disclosure of TFNs to VSL providers for the same purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025

  to make technical amendments prior to the commencement of the

  Veterans’ Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003

  to validate certain fees collected by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission between 1 July 2011 and 11 March 2025, including the indexation applied to those fees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to implement measures relating to Australia’s international education sector, including in relation to education agents and commissions, the giving of education agent information to registered providers, the management of provider applications, registration requirements, the automatic cancellation of registration and specified courses in certain circumstances, the investigation of offences when considering the fit and proper provider test, and internal reviews of reviewable decisions;

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to ensure that registered providers that are delivering courses outside Australia are authorised by the

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency

  ;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to introduce demand driven Commonwealth supported places for courses of study in medicine for eligible First Nations students; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: expand information gathering powers to support the Early Education Service Delivery Prices Project; expand authorisations for the handling of protected information; make technical amendments; and align the date of effect for decisions relating to the child care subsidy (CCS) reconciliation process with the date of effect in the CCS system. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Baby Priya’s) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that, unless employers and employees have expressly agreed otherwise, employer-funded paid parental leave must not be cancelled because a child is stillborn or dies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Guarantee Charge Amendment Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Payday Superannuation) Bill 2025, the bill imposes a superannuation guarantee charge on any superannuation guarantee shortfall of an employer for a qualifying earnings day (the employee’s payday). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum